If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Praying is learned by praying.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.